slower than molasses

[glorybound]

If this could be built-in, that would be a game changer, IMO. You know, presets of common roofs, siding, and other building materials like tiles. Who can I bribe to implement this, like today!

[Paul Roberts]

Thanks Bobby - that's exactly the plan

[Paul Roberts]

Actually if you have any suggestions or links for commonly used roofing or siding styles that would be invaluable for your work let me know. You can send them to paul@itoosoft.com. Thanks!

[glorybound]

Great! Thanks for all you guys do. I don't own RailClone yet, but just about all the guys here swear by it.

Actually if you have any suggestions or links for commonly used roofing or siding styles that would be invaluable for your work let me know. You can send them to paul@itoosoft.com. Thanks!

[glorybound]

Can you believe that I am still waiting? I did turn on DOF, but c'mon!





Now, it looks pretty and I do need more horsepower, but 20 hours! When this is done I am going to try SolidRocks and report back.

[glorybound]

I'm using BF+BF and if I remember correctly, I'm using 1/36 .008

It would be nice to be able to see your settings while rendering, unless you can and I don't know about it. You can forget a lot in 20 hours

[joconnell]

Larger bucket size and maybe increase your dynamic memory limit? If you turn off displacement in the render globals and run it again is it faster? You might be choking vray by not giving it enough memory for all the dynamic stuff to generate nin so it might be continuously doing a portion of the displacement and having to throw it out, which is a tad inefficient.

[glorybound]

Larger bucket size and maybe increase your dynamic memory limit? If you turn off displacement in the render globals and run it again is it faster? You might be choking vray by not giving it enough memory for all the dynamic stuff to generate nin so it might be continuously doing a portion of the displacement and having to throw it out, which is a tad inefficient.

I always set my Memory to 0. I'm not sure why I would set it to anything else. When monitoring RAM, I'm only using 50%. When I turn off displacement, globally, it renders in less than an hour.

[joconnell]

Definitely a good endorsement for railclone with a good preset then, if it's shaving off a good portion of time in every exterior you do then that sounds like a good investment

[Oleg_Budeanu]

Always using RailClone for roofs and etc. It is just awesome for any kind of repeating geometry , do not see any reason to use displacement here to be honest.

[glorybound]

What would be a dream is being able to drive geometry with a displace map, permanently, and not just at render time.

Bobby Parker www.bobby-parker.com

[Oleg_Budeanu]

What would be a dream is being able to drive geometry with a displace map, permanently, and not just at render time.

Bobby Parker www.bobby-parker.com

3dsmax displacement modifier ?

[glorybound]

So, it exists? Why hasn't anyone recommended this as an option? Does it not work well? I would try, but my computer is a little busy right now

3dsmax displacement modifier ?

[stevesideas]

It does work well but you really have to crank up the sub divs on any geometry you use it on to get good detail. Railclone or just modelling would be the best way to go.

[super gnu]

yes max displace is useful in limited situations, but youd need to subdivide your roof geometry into about 10 billion polygons to get a clean result ( the displace modifier just pushes and pulls whatever mesh you give it, based on a map. so to get crisp edges youd need a stupid base mesh.)


there was talk a while ago about getting the option to export the result of the vraydisplacement as a vrmesh.. this should not be hard to implement since the code for rt gpu already builds the whole displacement mesh to send to the gpu..

i dont know if that feature was ever added to "the list"